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How to Enable and Disable Linux ExecShield Buffer Overflows Protection

Posted Fri, 01/06/2012 - 06:57 by sentono

What is ExecShield ?

ExecShield is security Linux kernel patch to avoid worms and other problems.

Exec Shield is a project that got started at Red Hat, Inc in late 2002 with the aim of reducing the risk of worm or other automated remote attacks on Linux systems. The first result of the project was a security patch for the Linux kernel that adds an NX bit to x86 CPUs. While the Exec Shield project has had many other components, some people refer to this first patch as Exec Shield.